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Cloud Computing Could Be a $1BN Business for Dell "In a Couple of Years"

According to Founder & CEO Michael Dell

Already generating "hundreds of millions" of dollars in sales for Dell, cloud computing could be a $1 billion business "in a couple [of] years" according to a BusinessWeek interview with Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the company.

Speaking with BW's Aaron Ricadela, Dell explained that Dell plans  to customize large orders of thousands of servers for customers like Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo.

Dell's stock has risen 23% over the past three months. On a rising cloud, all ships rise...

 

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Yahoo too 07/28/08 04:18:13 PM EDT

When Yahoo Chief Scientist Andrew Tomkins previewed the future of search a recent keynote address Yahoo announced an agreement with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to support cloud computing research.